SOC teams have been on the hunt for ages for a way to automate manual, repetitive tasks and workflows. SOAR was intended to streamline security workflows — however, legacy SOAR tools have long since been called “obsolete” by Gartner due to their reliance on excessive customization and scripting.
That’s why legacy SOAR is being abandoned by SecOps teams in favor of no-code security automation solutions, particularly the new gold standard for today’s modern SOC operations — AI-driven Hyperautomation and the autonomous SOC.
Let’s break down how these security automation software solutions compare.
What are SOAR Tools?
Legacy Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) tools were designed to help security teams centralize and automate security operations through playbooks. SOARs were developed to solve many of the problems associated with security incident and event management (SIEM) platforms, the old standby tool for security engineers.
However, SOAR tools suffer from limitations such as rigid architecture and a heavy reliance on custom scripting and coding, hindering their ability to integrate with the modern security stack and adapt to evolving security needs.
What is No-Code Security Automation?
No-code security automation refers to tools that anyone — not just security engineers with coding expertise — can use to build and deploy automated security workflows that define risks, enforce security rules, and remediate threats automatically.
By using a codeless approach to security (think drag-and-drop visual interfaces and pre-built templates), no-code security automation tools enable security teams to manage risks without depending on specialized, expensive scripting skillsets.
SOAR Tools vs. No-Code Security Automation
SOAR tools and no-code security automation platforms overlap in many of their objectives, including:
- Automation: Both solutions enable automated risk identification and management.
- Efficiency: SOAR and no-code security tools are designed to help organizations manage risks more effectively.
- Going beyond threat detection: Unlike SIEMs, SOARs and no-code security frameworks don’t just detect risks and send alerts, they can also be used to manage risk response.
- Threat intelligence: Both categories of tools draw on threat intelligence data to help identify and assess the newest types of security risks.
But the similarities stop there. In general, no-code security automation delivers additional features and benefits that SOAR tools lack, including:
- Accessibility: No-code security automation frameworks are easy enough for anyone to use, regardless of coding experience. In this way, they allow all stakeholders, not just cybersecurity experts, to define and enforce security requirements within the systems they manage.
- Automated response: In addition to making it easy to configure security rules, no-code security automation frameworks can automate threat response based on those rules. Traditional SOARs provide some automated response features, but they focus more on orchestrating threat response actions by cybersecurity professionals than on actually remediating the threat themselves.
- Configuration security posture management: Traditional SOAR tools usually focus on identifying active risks within environments, not assessing configurations to find flaws that could enable a breach. No-code security automation tools do both, however, which means they can address domains like cloud security posture management (CSPM) in addition to runtime security.
- Simple integrations: While it’s possible to deploy a SOAR in various environments and with many types of systems, doing so usually requires extensive configuration and customizations. In contrast, no-code security automation platforms are designed to start working out of the box, across any mainstream environment, with minimal configuration tweaks.
Enter: AI-Powered Hyperautomation
Building upon the accessibility and flexibility of no-code automation, the modern SOC now demands a more intelligent and scalable approach: AI-driven Hyperautomation. Torq’s autonomous SecOps platform powered by AI-driven Hyperautomation represents a fundamental leap in the evolution of security automation for modern SOC capabilities.
Security Hyperautomation delivers significant advancements over SOAR and basic no-code automation. In addition to limitless integrations and cloud-based scalability, Torq Hyperautomation™ offers powerful case management capabilities that eliminate alert fatigue by automating Tier-1 threat remediation and intelligently prioritizing complex cases. And now, Torq’s agentic AI and Multi-Agent System is revolutionizing SOC efficiency through autonomous triage, investigation, and response.
Thanks to no-code, low-code, and AI-generated workflow building, Torq empowers your SOC team to build and manage automations without extensive coding knowledge — while also offering full-code capabilities for those on your team who want granular control.
By automating complex workflows in minutes and leveraging intelligent decision-making, the AI-powered SOC can help organizations move beyond reactive security to become more efficient and resilient in the face of talent shortages and ever-evolving threats.
See how Torq Hyperautomation stacks up:
Torq Hyperautomation vs. Legacy SOAR Tools
Torq Hyperautomation vs. No-Code Security Automation Software
